Elves Have Migrated to My Planter

Chapter 16 – Another World (6)

Chapter 16 – Another World (6)

I wondered if it was a bit far-fetched to say that we couldn’t read each other’s texts, but since we actually met, we could communicate.

To be honest, even now it’s hard to believe. The fact that I could sit face to face and talk like this with a different species called elves in a world inside a small potted plant. Thinking back, it was luck that she believed in me unexpectedly easily.

“I found this place by accident. Neither do I. I once thought this place was such an abandoned land with nothing.”

When she heard how I got here, she nodded her head, saying the same.

“In reality, it was clear that this was a land of nothing. You don’t know, but beyond that rift there is a new land. Where I am now.”

“So does that mean it’s different now?”

“Yes. Because in this exile that we ignored and rejected, in fact, our roots were growing.”

Serenian laughed faintly at the mention of the World Tree. She said that the world tree is the root of the elves, the origin of the elves. It was their myth and history that the 12 fairies born from the primordial world tree soon became the ancestors of the elven clans, which were divided into several sects.

“Can I ask what the word deportation means?”

After hearing her up to that point, I was finally able to ask her about her doubts that had been harboring her since the beginning.

Why she was banished here alone, what scars were on her back, why she returned to her hometown with only two young elves to ask for her help. It was an opportunity to answer that question.

“Simple. I was banished from my clan, and this place was just a place of exile to drive out the outcasts.”

She said it indifferently, calmly. Her eyes seemed to be deep in thought, somehow blank, but it didn’t seem like she was forcing herself to be unconcerned.

“It would be rude to ask why you were banished?”

“Aren’t you human? So it doesn’t matter if I say Because this is our family business.”

She looked at her and asked, just in case, but unexpectedly, she answered. As Serenian said, I was a thorough stranger who didn’t even know what an elf was, so I didn’t know if it was a possible confession.

“There was only conflict. As the chief’s daughter and the next high elf, I decided to serve the World Tree.

As she stared blankly at the ground, an unexpected, dark story flowed from her mouth.

Serenian was the princess of a tribe belonging to the Great Forest Elves, the most powerful of the elves. She was a warrior and priest whose talents and abilities were already recognized.

A body that has already accepted the essence of the World Tree in order to take over when one of the previous High Elves retired from their position at the end of their lifespan. The pattern on his back was said to be proof of that.

“It was around the time I finished the ceremony that the demon king and his army, who had been fighting for a long time, were defeated. I didn’t know much when I was young, but they said that a group of warriors who had been fighting for over 10 years had finally defeated the Demon King. It is said that the hero returned to his hometown after defeating the demon king, but those who fought alongside him became unsung heroes and began to exert a great influence on the world. And among those heroes, there were a few of us elves.”

“Are they the ones who brought change?”

“Yes. I assure you, elves who like humans are a different species. But if we risked our lives together and stayed together as comrades-in-arms for nearly 10 years, I’m sure my mind will change.”

The elves who became heroes. It is said that they strongly insisted on exchanges with other races, including humans. There were even those who made a covenant with a human hero.

Since the position of those who drove out the demon king was so great, it was only natural that the closed elven society would be shaken.

“I was against it to the end. Even if it means being kicked out of my place and my tribe.”

“Did you hate humans that much?”

“No. Because I saw their greed and twists.”

Serenian, who had been fidgeting with his fingers and staring at the ground, raised his head and flashed green eyes, saying that reformist elves had lost their innocence and corrupted themselves at the instigation of humans.

“I didn’t think change was evil. I also thought that if the environment changes, it is right to adapt. But I was convinced that it should all be for the good of us all, not the greed of some group.”

The Reformed Elves suppressed opposition and opposition by force and enforced their will on their own people. In the process, threats and violence were often used.

However, in Serenian’s view, the changes and exchanges achieved by doing so were not changes for all elves, but coercive domination and exploitation for some groups.

“A quarrel so small that it can hardly be called a civil war broke out in the inner land where the World Tree was. I was still immature, so I couldn’t beat a hero who had gone through all the battles, so I eventually lost, and I rejected all their offers. As a high elf candidate, I ended up being banished, but I don’t know what became of the others who fought alongside me.”

“…Looks like you brought up bad memories for no reason.”

I averted my eyes slightly. Her feelings of being whipped and driven out, her hatred of them, her pity for those she failed to keep, and her being thrown into the bare ground seemed too great for me to understand.

“I’m fine now. Because the things I need to protect are here, and… I’m not alone.”

But somehow she looked better than me.

I smiled bitterly when I realized who Serenian’s smirking smile was thinking of. As expected, my decisions and actions were of significant help.

***

“Can I really go? Where the world tree is.”

“It’s a neighbor anyway. It’s harder not to get involved, so this is better. Above all, if you are a priest of a divine spirit, you can trust him.”

After getting to know each other to some extent.

Serenian invited me to his house. She gasped at the drone in my hand.

As expected, the biggest reason for gaining her trust seemed to be my role in firmly believing that she was the spirit of this world.

[Cannot enter the center of alien creatures]

[Need to level up the World Tree]

“Oops.”

But I couldn’t cross her rift, unlike her, who roamed freely. For some reason, the power to control the world in this pot treated me as an outsider, as I came with a pot of herbs different from a pot of bonsai.

“You said you couldn’t get over it?”

“Yes. It looks like it needs some time.”

She widened her eyes as if surprised to hear that I couldn’t move on.

It’s unfortunate, but it can’t be helped. First of all, I decided to be satisfied with the fact that I had a relationship with her and built a relationship that was not bad.

This is the limit of meeting her directly, but I can continue to watch her anyway.

“Then I can’t help it. I will just go today.”

“Well, please do me one favor before I go.”

But I caught her trying to leave her alone. She kept thinking to herself, and eventually she gave up. But I couldn’t pick up what I had already said, so I decided to be brave.

“Is it okay to just stand like this? Ooh, why are our faces over there? Is it a mirror?!”

“It would be perfect to think of it as a mirror.”

I picked up my phone and switched the camera, and then I saw her embarrassed face and my laughing face on the screen.

“I really want to go now.”

As soon as she left, leaving behind a picture of her, I escaped the world inside the pot without hesitation.

I returned to my original body size and stood in the living room, the phone in my hand. Inside, there is obviously a photo taken with a beautiful elf.

This picture was proof. Proof that I took a step forward.

“—? –…”

I walked to the bonsai pot and there, too, she had slipped through her cracks and was trudging home.

As I moved her drone, she looked at her drone and muttered something. Could it be that those who glanced back while talking were talking about me?

It seemed like it would be okay to give her something like a walkie-talkie afterward if she understood. Then we can communicate outside like this.

[The underworld is moving again]

“…After.”

Besides, this may not be an option, but an essential issue. By the time she reached her house.

As if rest and stability are not allowed, a new phrase came to mind. Serinian also looked up at the World Tree, raising his head in surprise, as if he had noticed something.

[Dungeon – Deeper anthill]

An ant nest in a dungeon that I thought I had cleared at best. That irritating and disgusting thing has now reappeared in the world inside the pot.

‘It’s inevitable.’

Me and she hardened her face, but she wasn’t angry or annoyed.

She said she can’t avoid a fight to clear this empty ground either. Above all, she also has the power to become stronger by killing demons in the world capital and absorbing their power, so as the saying goes, this fight is a competition for habitat and food.

If it is pushed or avoided, it will culminate and die.

‘How can I help?’

It is wiser to think a little more and find a way rather than worrying and stamping your feet.

I left the veranda while Serenian called the young elves and told them about this.